1.Dirge - Lost Empyrean

2.The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer

3.Akitsa - Credo

4.Vanishing Kids - Heavy Dreamer

5.Wolvennest - Void

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This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone…

1.Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony

2.Cadaveria - In Your Blood

3.Caïna - Mourner

4.Caïnan Dawn - F.O.H.A.T.

5.Cain's Offering - Stormcrow

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Yet another annual top 10.. well more like top25 list. I am sure I missed something, and that I would change something depending on the mood, but it is what it is.

1.Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins

2.Vermilia - Kätkyt

3.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

4.Thy Catafalque - Geometria

5.Cruachan - Nine Years Of Blood

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No reviews for this year.

Non Metalstrom Bands

Anicon: https://anicon.bandcamp.com/
Antigone's Fate: https://antigonesfate.bandcamp.com/
Pure Wrath: https://purewrath.bandcamp.com/
Reprisal:…

1.Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos

2.Elderwind - The Colder The Night

3.The Beast Of Nod - Vampira: Disciple Of Chaos

4.Wilds Forlorn - Sapiens

5.Antigone's Fate - Insomnia

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The impossible task of choosing top 25 albums for this year... so many of them are not even on MS. But here they are, top 10 are kinda in order, the remaining 15 are not sorted by importance.

1.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

2.Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins

3.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

4.Judas Priest - Firepower

5.Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog

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Cigars, Craft beer and whisky, in your 20's you party, get leid, after 30 only what left in life is metal, cigars, craft beer, whisky and metal, because rest of freaks are old, whit family, children…

1.Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods

2.A Forest Of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes

3.Cruachan - Nine Years Of Blood

4.Forest Of Shadows - Among The Dormant Watchers

5.Chrome Division - One Last Ride

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Since this is technically not a ranking, I've made this list alphabetical. These albums are all ones I am considering for Top 50 of the year and are worth your time.

1.Aboleth - Benthos

2.Aborted - TerrorVision

3.Æpoch - Awakening Inception

4.Agrimonia - Awaken

5.Alghazanth - Eight Coffin Nails

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1.Ross The Boss - By Blood Sworn

2.Kobra And The Lotus - Prevail II

3.Riot V - Armor Of Light

4.Cruachan - Nine Years Of Blood

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1.Fifth Quadrant - Vision

2.Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs

3.Sylvaine - Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone

4.Powerwolf - The Sacrament Of Sin

5.Bury Tomorrow - Black Flame

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Welcome to my 2018 list. If you have recommendations for albums, feel free to message in the comments section. Or, if you see anything on the list you liked or found something you want to check out, feel…

1.Вѣдьмa - История отречения

2.Stormbane - Eldritch Devotion

3.Omnium Gatherum - The Burning Cold

4.The Algorithm - Compiler Optimization Techniques

5.High On Fire - Electric Messiah

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Actually getting onto this year relatively early, let's see what it's got in store for us all.

1.Weedpecker - III

2.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

3.Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology

4.Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It

5.Aviations - The Light Years

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This is a list of all the folk metal albums I have listened to that I found to be of at least marginal quality. It is purely for my own organizational purposes and is not meant to be a definitive statement…

1.Elvenking - Secrets Of The Magick Grimoire

2.Forefather - Ours Is The Kingdom

3.Forefather - Steadfast

4.Forefather - Last Of The Line

5.Dalriada - Áldás

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